Book beginnings on Friday – July 13th. 2012

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For this week’s beginning I’ve chosen one of my all time favorite books.

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis is about time travel, or so it seems. What it really is about is people, Doomsday book by Connie Willisand plagues, and compassion. Kivrin is a historian who travels back to England at the time of the black death. After she has left a serious influenza epidemic breaks out in her own time too. We follow the two time lines through the book. Doomsday Book won the Hugo, the Locus SF and the Nebula prizes and was shortlisted for other awards.

Mr. Dunworthy opened the door to the laboratory and his spectacles promptly steamed up.
“Am I too late?” he said, yanking them off and squinting at Mary.
“Shut the door,” she said. “I can’t hear you over the sound of those ghastly carols.”
Dunworthy closed the door, but it didn’t completely shut out the sound of “O, Come All Ye Faithful” wafting in from the quad. “Am I too late?” he said again.

 

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Book beginnings on Friday – July 13th. 2012 — 6 Comments

  1. I haven’t read this Connie Willis. I love SF so don’t know how I missed it. Love you blog. I just went for a small stroll through some of your back post. Thanks for visiting.

  3. Scrooge would like them as employees, so willing to work on Christmas day.

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  4. I am not a big SF fan but the plot here sounds interesting, even though I would think twice about going back to such a time. For an historian it probably is the dream vacation.